Fallout 3

Title: Fallout 3
Studio: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks, Zenimax Media
Genre: FPS/RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360

Premise
You are the son of a scientist who has run away from your home, and your mission is to find him.

Character
Your character has very customizable facial features, colors, and hairstyles, as well as skill points and special perks. you can add skill points and choose one new perk every time you level up from experience points, gained by killing enemies or completing missions.

Engagement
To say the least, the game is very engaging. Through its various cutscenes, sprawling, 16 square mile landscape, to the apocalyptic scenery, to the colorful NPCs, the game does an excellent job of engaging the player on an emotional level, making them feel as if they truly are trying to scavenge a living from the nuclear wasteland.

Story
Hundreds of years in the future, a nuclear war threatens to end the human race, but they are saved by Vaults, man-made caverns that were designed to give us a second chance in the even of a war. A long while after the war ended, you are born. You are born inside vault 101, where you grow up, and then, for no apparent reason, your father leaves the vault. It is your undying quest to follow and try to locate him.

Resources
Your resources consist mainly of healthpacks, ammunition, books to gain skill, food, anti rad syringes, anti damage powerups, action point power ups, and experience points.

Challenge
The game succeeds in keeping the game in the flow most of the time by having an innovative tutorial stage that most players wont even realize is happening, and the challenge increases steadily from there, making sure that the player is not breezing through the missions, but is not being killed at ever turn, either.